Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Review: An Uncommon Courtship by Kristi Ann Hunter

After a night trapped together in an old stone keep, Lady Adelaide Bell and Lord Trent Hawthorne have no choice but to marry. Dismayed, Adelaide finds herself bound to a man who ignores her, as Trent has no desire to connect with the one who dashed his plans to marry for love. Can they set aside their first impressions before any chance of love is lost?

My Thoughts:

Two words stand out to me when I think of summing up the
book An Uncommon Courtship by Kristi
Ann Hunter; they are tenderhearted and cherished. This was a lovely story of two people thrown
together into a marriage that neither one had wanted or anticipated. Yet, both decided (albeit alone), to make the
best of the situation. However, somewhere the meaning of marriage was lost in
good intentions.

We are treated with both Trent’s and Adelaide’s
viewpoints. On the outside it looked as
if all their problems might be solved by just sitting down and speaking to each
other. But these two were virtual
strangers to each other and even though both came from well to do families,
they did have different upbringings.
Adelaide was the middle child and ignored for most of her life and so
continues to hide herself in submission and solitude. Trent, the second son, tries not to ever
outshine his most beloved older brother, Griffith the duke, so he keeps his
most personal thoughts to himself. Neither
knew where or how to begin to have a marriage.

Trent decides to court his wife. While the plan sounded good to him, the way
he went about it was very unconventional.
But again these two people haven’t really changed their circumstances at
all. We as the reader get to go on this
journey with them and see how these two very hurting individuals can make their
marriage work. I really felt like this
was such a great example of new marriage in general. Two people trying to now live and work
together for the common goal of a successful marriage and life together. There were delicate matters that were
addressed in the book, but they were done tastefully and realistically between
two innocents.

There was delicateness to this book, asking important
questions like what is love and how do we love?
Something I think our society, our world on a whole could take a lesson
from. I enjoyed seeing the rest of the
family and friends and chuckled at what I would call the bite and loving one-liners
that came from older brother Griffith. I
am looking forward to his story next.
This is a story that will stay with me for a while.

I received a copy of this book for free. I was not required to give a positive review
and the views and opinions expressed are my own.